As Term 1 ends, we have completed testing our P5 students on the Commonly Misspelled Words list. Twice a year, students are given spelling lists. At the start of the year, they are tested on Commonly Misspelled Words list and in Term 3, they are tested on PSLE Editing List taken from 2017 – 2023/2-24. That is not all. Twice a month, students are also given Editing words to learn as spelling. In this day and electronic age, is spelling really that important? Yes, it is.

With the changes in the PSLE 2025 format, Editing is now out of 10 marks – 5 for spelling and 5 for grammar. While 5 marks may not seem like a lot, being able to spell commonly misspelled words is a great advantage to students. This is because components such as Editing, Synthesis and Transformation and Comprehension Cloze rely heavily on how well a student spells a word. For example, the student may know the answer in the cloze but unfortunately spells it wrong.

It is the same for Composition. A student may have good ideas and is descriptive in her writing. However, if the compo is peppered with spelling mistakes, a lot of marks will be subtracted from Language.

Below is the list of commonly misspelled words. We break up the list into weekly spelling words to test our P5 students. You can do the same at home.



P5 Commonly Misspelled Words

  1. athlete
  2. athletics
  3. aggressive
  4. authorize
  5. accumulate
  6. ascend
  7. amateur
  8. ageing
  9. acquaintance
  10. conscience
  11. convenient
  12. conscious
  13. unconscious
  14. cigarette
  15. diarrhoea
  16. dissatisfied
  17. disastrous
  18. dining
  19. desperate
  20. dilemma
  21. excitement
  22. embarrass
  23. especially
  24. environment
  25. exaggerate
  26. exhilarate
  27. enclosure
  28. familiar
  29. foreigner
  30. government
  31. horrified
  32. interview
  33. inevitable
  34. irresistible
  35. maintenance
  36. manoeuvre
  37. noticeable
  38. nausea
  39. opponents
  40. occasion
  41. occurrence
  42. panicked
  43. perseverance
  44. pronunciation
  45. pastime
  46. paralyze
  47. possession
  48. profession
  49. perspiration
  50. receive
  51. schedule
  52. separate
  53. sympathise
  54. sincerely
  55. scene
  56. sufficient
  57. severely
  58. unanimous
  59. victorious
  60. villain
  61. whether
  62. wrinkly

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2025 P5 English Tuition Timetable

BranchDayTime
Bukit TimahTUE - FULL - WAITING LIST3 pm to 5 pm
Bukit TimahWED3.30 pm to 5.30 pm
Bukit TimahFRI - NEW CLASS 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Bukit TimahSAT - 1 SEAT LEFT9 am to 11 am
HougangTUE5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
HougangSAT9 am to 11 am
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